PARADIGMS OF FRONTIER INTERACTION: A NEW USE FOR DIGENES AKRITES
This article argues that the Byzantine romance known as Digenes Akrites has more to offer historians than is often recognized. Regardless of the fictional nature of the story or of the exact date of its composition, the Digenes tale can serve as an exemplar of the kinds of interactions which regular...
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| description | This article argues that the Byzantine romance known as Digenes Akrites has more to offer historians than is often recognized. Regardless of the fictional nature of the story or of the exact date of its composition, the Digenes tale can serve as an exemplar of the kinds of interactions which regularly took place in the frontier regions between the Byzantine and Muslim worlds and the social values and cultural mores that guided such interactions. If taken as a paradigm of otherwise invisible conditions along the frontier regions of southeastern Anatolia, Digenes can shed new light on an otherwise dark and incomplete picture. It is, in fact, a frontier world in and of itself, in which outside powers, both Muslim and Byzantine, are distant images and only occasional players. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c4fd019db64b4a81976d76ff9e9771292024-04-15T09:34:32ZdeuOsman KöseHistory Studies1309-41732024-02-0116111112410.9737/historystudies.13852012404PARADIGMS OF FRONTIER INTERACTION: A NEW USE FOR DIGENES AKRITESNathan Leidholm0Bilkent UniversityThis article argues that the Byzantine romance known as Digenes Akrites has more to offer historians than is often recognized. Regardless of the fictional nature of the story or of the exact date of its composition, the Digenes tale can serve as an exemplar of the kinds of interactions which regularly took place in the frontier regions between the Byzantine and Muslim worlds and the social values and cultural mores that guided such interactions. If taken as a paradigm of otherwise invisible conditions along the frontier regions of southeastern Anatolia, Digenes can shed new light on an otherwise dark and incomplete picture. It is, in fact, a frontier world in and of itself, in which outside powers, both Muslim and Byzantine, are distant images and only occasional players.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/3513073digenes akritesbyzantine literaturefrontier historybyzantium and the islamic worlddigenes akritesbizans edebiyatısınır tarihibizans ve i̇slam dünyası |
| spellingShingle | Nathan Leidholm PARADIGMS OF FRONTIER INTERACTION: A NEW USE FOR DIGENES AKRITES History Studies digenes akrites byzantine literature frontier history byzantium and the islamic world digenes akrites bizans edebiyatı sınır tarihi bizans ve i̇slam dünyası |
| title | PARADIGMS OF FRONTIER INTERACTION: A NEW USE FOR DIGENES AKRITES |
| title_full | PARADIGMS OF FRONTIER INTERACTION: A NEW USE FOR DIGENES AKRITES |
| title_fullStr | PARADIGMS OF FRONTIER INTERACTION: A NEW USE FOR DIGENES AKRITES |
| title_full_unstemmed | PARADIGMS OF FRONTIER INTERACTION: A NEW USE FOR DIGENES AKRITES |
| title_short | PARADIGMS OF FRONTIER INTERACTION: A NEW USE FOR DIGENES AKRITES |
| title_sort | paradigms of frontier interaction a new use for digenes akrites |
| topic | digenes akrites byzantine literature frontier history byzantium and the islamic world digenes akrites bizans edebiyatı sınır tarihi bizans ve i̇slam dünyası |
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